I would like to link with a real estate attorney for assistance in translation of the contract, and making sure i am covered.Please let me know if you have any referral for one in Georgia especially in Marietta. 

Which translates into lenders not requiring flood insurance.  

And we also charge for actual cleaning and damages, which usually translates into recovering about 50% of our turn cost.

It doesn't mean they are dumb, but skills from one area don't automatically translate to another. 2.

So I was a little too understanding translating the time line into contractor time, which is 2x longer than normal people time.The owner of X, had mentioned they'd be done around Christmas.

My job in the military once I'm in should hopefully translate into a good civilian job, so would I be fine in that case?

Old victorian houses that have had a million add-ons and modifications from drunk uncle Jimmy can take much, much longer.We translate from drawings to Archicad.

But you will get people looking at a worse property to achieve a percentage metric than translates into very little marginal income.Tip: If $20 per month represents such a material change that it would sway a buy/no-buy decision...don't get into real estate :) You will have WAY bigger issues over the years to contend with.

.- Real estate agents, I need to start getting in touch with the current state of the market, and start translating the theoretical book learning into practice. 

But it seems like the investors who are able to out bid have long history with their guys which translates to lower costs to build.